I’m currently a Tenure Track Senior Researcher and PI of the “Advanced characterizations and optimized functional materials for energetic transition” research line at the Center for Sustainable Future Technologies, Italian Institute of Technology, in Turin.
The focus of my research activity is in particular on advanced in-situ/operando and correlative operando characterizations, in particular electrochemical Liquid Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy (EC-LPTEM), Raman Spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, IR Spectroscopy, Near Ambient pressure X-ray Photoemission Spectroascopy (NAP-XPS) ,of functional materials for their optimization for the energy transitionapplications.
BEST PUBBLICATIONS
K. Bejtka, M. Fontana, C. I. Gho, S. Merkens, A. Chuvilin, C. F. Pirri and Angelica Chiodoni
Electrochemical liquid phase TEM in aqueous electrolytes for energy applications: the role of liquid flow configuration
Small Methods 2025 doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202570015
S. Merkens, C. Tollan, G. De Salvo, K. Bejtka, M. Fontana, A. Chiodoni, J. Kruse, M. Aime Iriarte-Alonso, M. Grzelczak, A. Seifert, A. Chuvilin
Toward sub-second solution exchange dynamics in flow reactors for liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy
Nature Communications (2024) 15, 2522